website inside or outside the domain?

Hello.

Is it a better practice in general to join a webserver to a domain or to leave it in it's own workgroup?

The reason I ask is because managing the permissions on the webserver is made difficult since I don't have access to the domain users and groups. That is, (as far as I know) I cannot add a domain group (i.e. DOMAIN\weborders) to a resource on the webserver. Instead I have to make a group locally on the webserver that mimics the group (and users in that group) on the domain.

Another reason I would like to join the webserver to the domain is because I could turn off Anonymous Access and force the users to login. BUT I am imagining their domain credentials would automatically be passed to the intranet site thus logging them in automagically. I would then have access to their username's from within my .asp pages.

The only reason I have not joined the server to the domain yet is because I am not sure what sorts of negative side effects there might be that I don't know about.

Can anyone shed any light on these situations and/or offer alternatives?

Thanks,
Chris. Received on Mon Feb 10 16:52:38 2003